Week of Aug 22, 2026 Sat–Fri, UTC

Aug 28

Nimbus · consensus layer client
The Nimbus consensus client v26.8.0 is a medium-urgency release with additional beacon API support. Because it enables QUIC gossip support, it listens on a new UDP port, by default 9001 and configura…
Staking · · in weekly #38

Aug 27

noble-ciphers · library
ChaCha / Salsa: reject output buffers that partially overlap unread input PRG: using after clean now throws Webcrypto: snapshot keys and params FF1: sizing for very large domains
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Foundry · framework
Foundry v1.8.0 ships an opt-in preview of native symbolic testing, mutation testing, and major fuzzing and invariant improvements, while making isolate mode and dynamic test linking the defaults. It…
More: Foundry v1.8.1 (GitHub)
Hardhat · framework
This release includes two highlights: improved Solidity Test compilation speed through a porting of our inline configuration parsing to Rust, and bumps of our default templates to Solidity 0.8.34.

Aug 26

Viem · client library
Breaking (viem/tempo): Renamed Abis.abis to Abis.all and expanded the aggregate with Earn and Zone ABIs.
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Revm · library
REVM v116 brings every publishable workspace crate to version 43.0.0. This release aligns the implementation with Glamsterdam devnet-8, adds asynchronous database execution, and includes correctness…

Aug 25

Aug 24

Eth Research · forum
ePBS, distilled by mike – august 24, 2026. . Thanks to potuz , Terence , Kubi , gd , Apriori , and Christian (ultra sound relay) for comments and review. Review does not necessarily imply agreement w…
Layer 1 · mikeneuder · · in weekly #37

Aug 22

Ape · framework
fix(Test): eth\_call fails when base fee exceeds 1 gwei @Steve0x2a (#2803) fix: reject path separators in account aliases @SashaMIT (#2804) fix: resolve overloaded methods by argument type, not just…
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